December 2011

How To: Get the Test Case associated with the unit test?

Gautam Goenka [MSFT] December 30, 2011 Dec 30, 2011 12/30/11

For running and managing unit tests using Microsoft Test Manager (MTM), the users have to do tcm testcase /import of the test assembly. This step creates a test case work item corresponding to unit test on the client side. With this, users can do many new scenarios – most importantly start viewing the history/trend of the result...

How To: Bulk edit action recording?

Gautam Goenka [MSFT] December 29, 2011 Dec 29, 2011 12/29/11

Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) has test runner using which one can do manual testing. One of the features that many folks use while doing manual testing using test runner is the Fast Forward feature. With this feature, a tester can do an action recording and later use that to fast forward the test with playback of the recording. A while back, ...

Sample XPath utility for Coded UI Test

Gautam Goenka [MSFT] December 28, 2011 Dec 28, 2011 12/28/11

Some important notes before I talk about the utility - The attached sample utility adds support for XPath query to Coded UI Test for searching controls. The utility uses built-in XPath parser and other classes of .NET and as such is conformant to .NET’s XPath Syntax. The new utility assembly adds two extension ...

Want to give feedback for Visual Studio 11 etc and receive cool gifts?

Charles Sterling December 22, 2011 Dec 22, 2011 12/22/11

The Microsoft Visual Studio Design Research Team i.e. the folks that work on the user interface for Visual Studio are doing rounds of usability labs –and would love for you to participate! Specifically they are looking for participants to give us direct feedback on our development tools, languages and libraries! ...

Storyboarding with PowerPoint – Short Videos to Get You Started

Kathryn Elliott December 19, 2011 Dec 19, 2011 12/19/11

We’ve created a few videos to help you quickly get started with PowerPoint Storyboarding. Each video lasts between 1 and 2 minutes. Note: We’ve made a few updates to the Storyboarding tool since these videos were made (specifically we’ve removed the Animation section on the Storyboarding tab. To do animation, go to the ...

ALM Summit 2011 Content Now Live and available

Charles Sterling December 13, 2011 Dec 13, 2011 12/13/11

Working with MSDN and Channel9, the ALM Summit folks have posted all Session the content at: https://channel9.msdn.com/events/alm-summit/2011 If you are looking for recommendations my top 5 were: ...

Interested in Agile Adoption across different industries and geographies?

Charles Sterling December 9, 2011 Dec 9, 2011 12/9/11

One of the pioneers of the application quality ecosystem, Theresa Lanowitz, has founded Voke – a company focused Application Lifecycle virtualization and convergence markets. A big part of her and Voke’s focus right now is insight how different development methodologies are doing. If you want a free copy of her ...

Team Foundation Service December Update

doug.neumann December 8, 2011 Dec 8, 2011 12/8/11

Today, I’m proud to announce a significant update to our hosted Team Foundation Service. In the 3 months since we went public with the service at //build/, we’ve pushed over a dozen updates to address bugs that customers have reported or we’ve witnessed in production. This update, however, is the first time you’ll see significant new...

Team Foundation Service Preview – Get Started with Agile Planning Tools

Importer December 7, 2011 Dec 7, 2011 12/7/11

UPDATE June 11, 2012 - This blog post series has been updated by our new beginner's guide hosted here. This blog post is part of the Beginner’s Guide series with the goal to get you productive fast. Here we walk quickly through the entire cycle of Agile planning: Create a backlog, plan a sprint, set capacity for your team, and ...

Team Foundation Service Preview – Upload Source to Your Hosted Account

Importer December 7, 2011 Dec 7, 2011 12/7/11

UPDATE June 11, 2012 - This blog post series has been updated by our new beginner's guide hosted here. This blog post is part of the Beginner’s Guide series with the goal to get you productive fast. This post walks you step-by-step to get your source code stored in your Team Foundation Services Preview account. ...

Azure DevOps Blog

December 2011 - Azure DevOps Blog